as someone who talks too much i think this is the sweet spot; say nothing and it’s unresolved, it’s yours to carry alone, say too much and it won’t necessarily be received the way you want or need it to be, say just enough and it stops being your problem and becomes the world’s problem, you’re free now it’s not your business how it’s received. but sometimes just enough is not at all, because maybe there’s nothing left to say ☝🏽😔
Mar 20, 2024
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anybody else tired of spelling every little thing out? we are spelling way too much out these days and it's a lot. we need a bit more opacity over transparency! not every situation calls on us to explain ourselves. most of the time we can just shrug and keep it moving. as a society it'd be amazing if we can learn to make space for unencumbered silence and repose in a gentle and tender way. let go and let live
Jan 30, 2024
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really important to have this…a lot of people say something without having this and it leads to discord and mass confusion
Jan 23, 2024
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It will still be enough.
Nov 18, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
